22 March 2014, 02:49 PM IST
VS Achuthanandan has seen the writing on the wall. It's every man's right to have an honourable funeral. And there is no harm in trying to ensure that it takes place appropriately. The veteran CPM leader's recent rethink on his position within the party and, largely, in Kerala civil society makes it clear that he wants to say his farewell as a good, disciplined CPM member, if not as politburo member, and not as a good communist, an epithet he used to describe the slain rebel T P Chandrasekharan. Those who were waiting all these years for VS to leave the CPM fold and lead the revolutionary charge have been left disappointed. The unkindest cut has been in describing Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) as the tail of the Congress.
But how can VS be blamed for realizing that there is little time left for grand posturing and giving shape to the perfect communist party in the world? It's remarkable that VS has revisited his controversial positions regarding the party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan's "incorruptibility" at a time when an even greater ex-communist came knocking at the CPM door, almost pleading for re-entry. K R Gowri, when she was expelled from CPM, was even a bigger star in 1994 than VS is now. The difference was the absence of television news channels. At 95, Gowri has come back to the party (no pun intended). And VS has qualified his comrade's return by saying it was wrong to expel her in 1994. But why has it taken such a long time for VS to realize the party's mistake, and his own? In fact, the intent is quite clear. VS does not want to end up as Gowri, in political wilderness. All, it seems, VS wants now is to have a honourable farewell in the age of television.
Sadly, the only parallel that can be drawn to the dinosaur will be to the career of Congress stalwart K Karunakaran. The Congress leader was both a fool and a political realist. He was a fool to rail against Sonia Gandhi and leave Congress but a realist to return to the party to die as a Congressman. VS, however, is smarter. He never left the party.
VS's falling in line with the party leadership, in theory, should boost CPM's fortunes in the Lok Sabha elections. CPM wears the look of more 'unified' party than ever before. Even Berlin seems nearer to AKG Centre now, if not Onchiyam. But those dissenters, without a banner within the CPM, may be hard to be consoled and may take a right turn.
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